<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Some Suggestions from K-12</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font color="#000000">In this case, obviously, we're looking for fourth grade math teachers.  :)</font></tt></blockquote> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><b>Looking for K-12 Math Teachers?</b></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Want to use the CaTB approach of making your users your developers? ;-)</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">We have lots of K-12 math teachers in BSSD who know their way around a wiki. I</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">can privately give Greg a link to the mail list that goes to all of our teachers if you</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">wanted to invite them to participate.</font></tt></div> <div><br></div> <div>They wiki up a storm, and have about 11,500 pages and resources on all</div> <div>sorts of things.</div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">In any case, I like the way you have initial page of the wiki structured, but am</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">wondering if you don't need a template page linked to each standard that has the</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">areas of organization.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">In other words, something like this that has sections of different resources or</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">help for teaching that standard...or for learning it on your own. This is just a starter</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">stub for us, but you can get the sections....refinement of that standard area, resources, instructional strategies, assessment strategies and projects / activities.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><x-tab>        </x-tab>http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/GEO:_Regular-irregular_polygons</font ></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Just a thought, but if the goal is to both provide links to assist with teaching</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">that standard, and have a discussion page for the standard itself, it may make</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">sense. </font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Such a structure would allow learners to work ahead if they were  using our DART, or something</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">like SchoolTool or CanDo that could be linked to the wiki content....and provided information</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">about what each student needed to master in real time.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><b>Standards Alignment - Why Re-invent the Wheel</b></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Oh, and the odd alpha numerics in the standard are the alignment indicators to the</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Alaska State Standards.  You may want to have a section that listed the specific</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">standards yours were aligning to...Massachusetts Math 4.26, NAEP 4.17, etc.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">McREL labs in Denver did an alignment database project for all state standards a couple</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">of years ago, but the resource disappeared last year, I think, off their website. They</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">are one of the "Regional Education Labs" for K-12 in the US, and funded by the US Department</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">of Ed and others.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">The work they did was outstanding, and the database made it easy to find out how</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">a math standard covering, say, dividing fractions in Maine compared to one covering</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">that same general concept in Florida.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Perhaps someone with "University Cred" could contact them for access to the data?  I</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">tried, and nobody responded to a lowly K-12er ;-) That would be a HUGE help in determining</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">which standards are similar to which OTHER standards, and make the resources you develop far easier</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">to use no matter where you taught. </font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Although it could be used as basis, it would save developers here a million hours of labor,</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">and was done by some of the real experts in alignment. They have Bob Marzano and others</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">that have done standards-oriented work at McREL.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Obviously after you got it, aligning with international standards, such as IB and others,</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">would be a logical next step.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><b>International Efforts for OER</b></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">The UNESCO Open Educational Resources group has a discussion going on right now</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">about just how OERs (Open Educational Resources) could be used internationally. Most</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">of the members of that list are from other countries, and many have mentioned the OLPC</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">in past discussions:</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Suan D'Antoni runs the list (which is only open for like a month at a time with topics), and here is the link</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">to the current one...discussions going on right now here:</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><x-tab>        </x-tab>https://communities.unesco.org/wws/arc/iiep-oer-opencontent</font ></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">I will pitch in around here if there is a need, but the Iditarod Sled Dog race is starting</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">this week, so I may be mostly tied up with tour open educational project about that for the</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">next couple of weeks...IditaProject goes out for free by stream to about 8,500 students and teachers</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">starting on Saturday.</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">Regards,</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000">JTC</font></tt></div> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font color="#000000"><br> > I'm sorry if these questions have been hashed out already, I'm still new<br> > here.<br> <br> No worries.  Everybody is new here.<br> <br> --g<br> <br> --<br> Got an XO that you're not using?  Loan it to a needy developer!</font></tt></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font color="#000000">   [[ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry ]]<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> FourthGradeMath mailing list<br> FourthGradeMath@lists.sugarlabs.org</font></tt></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font color="#000000">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath</font ></tt></blockquote> <div><tt><font color="#000000"><br></font></tt></div> <div><br></div> </body> </html>